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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

blow the doors off en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To be much more important or impressive than.
    • You won “Last Comic Standing” in 2006. What impact did that have on your career? Well, it just blew the doors off everything I was doing up to that point. I’ve been doing 200 shows a year ever since then. It definitely launched me into the abyss. 2019 July 25, Vicki Dean, “Josh Blue on social media, improvisation and more”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune:

Forms

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blowing the doors off Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blew the doors off Tense=Past lexicographic
blows the doors off Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
blown the doors off Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

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blow the doors open